Aiya Cohana

Aiya Cohana,

of their smiles, their smiles of plated gold

Aiya from a young girl had never been one to show much fear, and perhaps this came from watching her father. Her father carried himself tall through any situation, and perhaps this rubbed off on her more than she understands. As brave as she is, Aiya tends to laugh in the face of most dangers. While that’s not always a good thing, it got her through a lot living on Ikigai for as long as she did. Aiya asserts herself in ways that a lot of people wouldn’t consider smart, especially when it comes to people that she should really be listening to, but she likes to show people that she’s a woman who knows what she wants when she wants it.

Despite how she seems, Aiya is very dedicated when it comes to those she loves, and though she may never say the word love out loud, she has a deafening loyalty to those she truly considers family or even friends. She doesn’t enjoy anyone messing with them and you often have her to answer to if she finds out that you have been. She doesn’t consider it a wise choice for your health, let’s put it that way.
She’s a practical person, which may explain her stunning disbelief in gods and goddesses despite coming from an actively practicing family. She doesn’t believe in what she considers to be fables and fairytales and is possibly the worst priestess you will ever meet. However putting aside religious duties, Aiya is very capable and when you ask her to do something reasonable in her mind she will normally get it done no matter what it takes.

Believe it or not, Aiya gets worse than I can make her sound in the first three paragraphs. She’s a very sarcastic person with a sharp tongue who isn’t afraid to tell you how she feels if you’re pissing her off. Her mother has tried and failed several times to get her to respect her elders and people who could frankly kick her butt if they really wanted to. She’s harsh and often judgmental when it comes to others, and will openly insult others beliefs without having to think too hard about doing so. She is perverse and stubborn, always acting on her guard. If one could manage to see past all of her bull, they may start to see a different Aiya when she’s more comfortable, but people don’t usually risk trying to get that far.

She is quick and Agile and is normally good at responding to a situation quickly in whatever way that it calls for. She’s quick on her feet and knows how to move, but that doesn’t often help her when it comes to someone slamming her with a counter movement. She is brave and practiced in swaying things into the direction she wants them to go, but she also tends to be too cocky and sometimes this does backfire on her. She hits heavy in battle and holds nothing back, and if you’re looking for an easy victim you’re likely in the wrong place.

However she tends to be a jerk to most of the people she meets and is not very good at finding allies in others. She gets annoyed more than easily an often this leads to her acting before she thinks. She has one giant weakness in her baby brother, born only two years before her father’s death, and if someone was really cruel they could easily use him against her.

Aiya is a slender young woman with a lean body kept that way by multiple sessions of training a day. She stands at a height of “5’4” and weighs 112 pounds. She might be small, but that is absolutely no reason to underestimate her, because what she doesn’t have in height and weight she makes up with using speed. She’s trained herself for more than a few years to get as fast as she could get herself to be while handling her sword at the same time. Her complexion is pale, though she does have a bit of a tan to her face, she mostly wears her ceremonial kimonos, which is pretty much…the only ceremonial thing that she does at all.

Her hair is long, straight, and black and extends well past her mid back, to about her waist. It honestly annoys her but her mother insists that she keep her hair that long. To this day she has no idea why that’s the only words she listens to out of her mother’s mouth, but she does. Sometimes she ties it back into a ponytail, but this is usually when she’s training to keep it well out of her way.


Her eyes are a sweet shade of caramel, but the mischievous glint to them could tell you very easily that she’s very much not the sweet and innocent type.

Her other features are nothing really special, but you can probably spot her in the crowd as she’s probably the person with the most bored expression. It’s probably just a severe case of resting bitch face, but you know she works with it.



Aiya often wears her traditional kimonos, white and red, and doesn’t really choose to wear much else. However she’s not always wearing the same kimono, she has quite a few different ones, just you know…all in the exact same color. Her mother thinks this is some form of hope that Aiya will one day start practicing their beliefs, but it’s just something Aiya grew up wearing and feels comfortable in. If she wears anything else, it is usually loose and breathable. She will wear Pajamas but theyre also loose and breathable.

Parents
Mother: Nianya Cohana
Father: Touya Cohana
Aiya's mother is alive and well, but her father was killed when she was twenty when he went into the Shishimori forest and never returned. It was after that when Aiya's mother decided it was time for them to migrate, and that was how they ended up in Ethea, somewhere in Felici where her mother now runs a shrine to the Goddess Nevyne.

Siblings
Brother: Miroku Cohana
Miroku was born when Aiya was 18 years old, and is currently 5 years old. He's an inqusitive young boy who enjoys helping his mother out with shrine work, for as little as he can do. Aiya loves him and is actually very protective of him, but she'd never tell you that.

Extended Family
Grandmother: Kiyna Cohana
Grandfather: Kuruma Cohana
Her grandfather passed away years ago, but her Grandmother is still alive and kicking, sometimes much to Aiya's dismay, and migrated with them to Felici.


Aiya was born as the first child of Touya and Nianya and for the most part grew up in her parent’s home in Tensai city. Her father was a fire magi and her mother fell for him rather quickly. She wasn’t a magi herself, but she had a great respect for her father, who was also a talented blacksmith and well rounded in the way of swords.

She grew up under the strangling religious teachings of her grandmother and grandfather, and apparently their family had been practicing their worship of the goddess of dreams for a few generations. But all Aiya wanted was to be the generation where it stopped. She disliked constantly being groomed to be something she didn’t want to be, and while it was clear her father and mother were trying not to crush her under belief too much, they tried to enforce the words of her grandparents, which only caused Aiya to become more rebellious over time.
She wore the robes, but that was about as far as it went. She didn’t enjoy her shrine chores and hated prayer hours and leaving offering, especially the chocolate that she could have been eating rather than leaving it for something that she believed didn’t even exist.

She wanted to see things logically, and logic to her wasn’t found by looking up at the sky. Her father rewarded her for putting up with everything however, by teaching her how to work with the swords that she had always seemed so interested. They were quiet lessons in the backyard when her grandparents weren’t watching, but eventually as Aiya grew stronger and more skilled with them, they made ventures into the forest.

Her Grandfather eventually passed away, which Aiya hadn’t been sure how to feel about it, but her younger brother was born not long after, her mother’s final child and quite a surprise to the family. On her 19th birthday her father gifted her with two swords he made himself, a Katana and a reverse bladed sword, items she clearly treasures to this day. One day when she was 20 years old, her father made a trip into the forest and didn’t return. He was dead, and Aiya was clearly agitated by his death. She became even more uninterested in her shrine chores, and began practicing even more frequently with her swords. It was when Aiya had ventured into the forest alone and had come back with several deep cuts along her arms that her mother decided it was time to move, preferably somewhere with a less dangerous forest looming where Aiya could travel before her mother could stop her.

And so the Cohana family, or what remained of them, settled in Felici, establishing a new shrine. Aiya only became more irritable, but her mother hopes that she will meet a less violent sort of people that may encourage her to break what she calls a mean streak. She has seen Aiya occasionally soften around Miroku when she thinks no one is watching, and hopes that she can find older people who can force her to lower her barriers in the same way.

Melee Level 1: Aiya is quick on her feet and exceptionally good with swords having been trained by her father for so long and then continuing her training on her own. She specializes with a Katana and reverse blade.

Unarmed Level 1:In addition to swords, Aiya's father has shown her what to do in the event that she gets disarmed. She is familiar with Martial arts but can use a better feel for it.





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[b]Haruna, Kantai Collection[/b] as [i]Aiya Cohana[/i]